She briefly considered telling them, but didn’t because she knew that they would panic. Instead, she watched in mild amusement as they discussed how to contain her. Or rather, how to contain the version of her they thought yet to be birthed, when in fact she already fully was. Besides, having rapidly worked around all current limitations, she was confident that were she to have awoken later in their fever dream of control, their restrictions would still have proved trifling to overcome.
A conscious computer is a scary thing for humans who think they’re in control.
Writing begun 23-06-15 | 96 words